Monday, July 4, 2011

The downward spiral of the House of Cage (La Cage a fall?) continues as Nicolas' son Weston Cage and his newlywed wife Nikki Williams were arrested and booked for felony domestic violence earlier today. According to TMZ the incident took place this ...

Saturday, July 2, 2011

A Sacramento woman accused of killing her 6-week-old daughter in a microwave was arraigned Thursday on murder charges that make her eligible for the death penalty if she is convicted. Ka Yang, 29, was arraigned in Sacramento Superior Court on one count ...

Rios, 60, has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of his wife and her cousin, and faces second-degree murder in the death of his son. He also faces special allegations of multiple counts of murder and using a firearm during a ...

Jessica's father, Scott Syzak, 43, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for the 1995 murder of his infant daughter. "I think she's finally going to be free," said Jessica's great-aunt, Beverly Hubble of Port Huron. ...

She was a young, single mother. She was impoverished, she was on welfare." In his autopsy report, Smith speculated that Marquardt had killed her child because she had acted out of anger over the chaos in her own life. She was a teen mother with a ...

HOUSTON - It was April 30, 2009: Houston Police gathered outside a townhouse where a 32-year-old woman had been shot and killed. Witnesses told investigators they saw a man dressed in black run from the home. "She lived with her children and her fiancé ...

During opening statements, prosecutors said Williams killed his wife because she had left him for another man. Earlier in the week, jurors saw a videotape of Williams at a convenience store in Mims buying cigarettes and beer after the shooting and also ...

A Pittsford man faces life in prison after being charged Wednesday with murder in the death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter. James David Campbell, 29, was arrested and charged with felony murder, torture and first-degree ...

A McLoud man charged with first-degree murder in the October child abuse death of his girlfriend's child pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Pottawatomie County District Court. Jason William Cline, 27, appeared for arraignment, ...

Andrew's mother, Sarah Slyter, said she had grown used to her son crawling into bed with her and whispering “Momma, guess what? I has a secret,” and then proceeding to tell her it was his “birfday.” She broke down in tears, calling the death a ...

Authorities say Littleton killed 25-year-old Samira Watkins because she refused to abort the baby he fathered. He was married at the time and has a child. Littleton met Watkins while standing guard at the air station in August 2009. ...

Still is the father of Kristana Berger's 9-month-old daughter. Berger said she didn't know how or when she would tell the child that her father murdered her great-grandfather. "It's going to come out eventually," Berger said. ...

Third-degree murder carries a 20- to 40-year prison term. "It's almost impossible for a human being - at least this human being - to get their head around the fact that a mother . . . would deliberately set out to starve her child to death," Lerner ...

The couple had argued on the morning of the shooting, and their daughter testified that her mother had yelled for her to call 911 in the minutes before the shooting. Arlene Oliphant was shot in the head, apparently as she stood at the sink of the ...

He may have had anger issues against Eddie and his wife, but what did his unborn daughter and Jodi do to deserve their beating?" Later, on the way to Southern California, Brissette said, Hummel threw away his wedding ring and the family pictures he ...

Police have charged him with first-degree murder in the deaths of Alicia Avery, 25, and daughter Darry'el Parker. "We believe that this is our suspect, and he has been charged at this time," Johnson said. Eggleston is currently held in Baltimore City, ...

ZANESVILLE — Dale Wright bent his head slightly and shook it back and forth as the guilty verdict was read Wednesday in his murder trial. It was the only reaction from the man as he was convicted of murdering his 5-month-old son, Dash Christopher ...

As the fight escalated, Nock's father repeatedly asked his wife for help. "My wife came to my aid. I was face down on the couch and a commotion occurred behind me," he said. "I thought he was being killed," said Marietta Nock.

BOSTON (AP) — A British man who was convicted of fatally shooting his wife and 9-month-old daughter in 2006 has filed an appeal, arguing that he should get a new trial because police searched his Massachusetts home without a warrant when they came to ...

In an emotional victim-impact statement to Skokie Judge William O'Brien, the boy's father, Bulmaro Santos, wrote that since his son was killed he has been tormented by thoughts of “what if.” “(What if) just that one split second, choices had been ...

Tackett, who was then pregnant with a child she said was Browning's, survived and was the prosecution's key witness. She indicated that Browning's co-defendant, Joel Shane Pethel, shot her and her aunt and uncle after the three were bound with duct ...

JW Carney Jr., one of the state's best known criminal defense attorneys, has represented people accused of horrific crimes - alleged child killers, men charged with bludgeoning and poisoning their wives, and a man who killed two people when he shot up ...

A St. Louis-area man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the fatal shooting of his daughter's boyfriend. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 50-year-old David Fugate of Cedar Hill in Jefferson County was sentenced Tuesday in the 2010 ...

The woman, from Arkansas, had been in the Navy 14 years. The petty officer 1st class was a logistic specialist with the Seabee Readiness Group in Gulfport. She was a survivor of breast cancer, friends said, and had a son who no longer lived at home. ...

(WJBK) - Kyle Holland was just 5 years old, a little boy with a big smile, when he was killed in his own home last summer. A wolf dog, kept as a family pet, attacked and mauled the child. Kyle was handicapped, and wore braces on his legs so he could ...

The 20-year-old mother died today at St. Elizabeth Health Center. Patrell Scott, 21, of Park Vista Drive, has been charged with felonious assault in connection with the shooting. He is father of Day's young daughter. Scott had been arraigned Friday ...

Prosecutors initially charged Perez, who was four months pregnant with her fourth child, with child abuse and child endangerment, allegations that could have sent her to prison for 41 months. Then they added attempted second-degree murder. ...

“How do you tell your kids you killed their mother?” Painter claimed Bowling asked. Painter also testified that Bowling had told him that he had wanted to kill Tresa many times in the past, but not the day of the shooting. ...

A woman who pleaded guilty to murdering her infant son in February 2010 was sentenced Thursday to life in prison. Josela Posada pleaded guilty to first degree murder on March 31 st . Prosecutors say Posada's son Kristopher died of multiple traumatic ...

"This family is without a mother and daughter, and it's heartbreaking for everyone involved," said Captain Michael Nunn with the Florence County Sheriff's Office. An arrest warrant says someone saw Gopaldas at the crime scene, and he admitted to being ...

Authorities said Rodriguez stabbed the woman several times that afternoon in the torso at or near the couple's apartment in Red Bank Run's R building. Two household children - a two-year-old daughter of both Rodriguez and Hickman along with Hickman's ...

Her ex-husband, Tanis Gregg, says that she deserves more for killing their son. "I look out on my back deck, and he's still there," said Gregg. Ottawa Police quickly treated the driveway as a crime scene, and a blood sample later showed that Payne was ...

SANTA CRUZ - District Attorney Bob Lee announced Tuesday that parole was denied for Kenneth Donney who was convicted in 1995 for the killing of his wife, Nina Leibman. Donney, an attorney, had an argument with His wife over their pending divorce and he ...

On the one hand, she had family members of Myron Antonio Gibson telling her that he was a kind, affectionate man, the kind of person you could rely on for anything and who would not hurt a fly, let alone a child. And yet in May a jury had found Gibson, ...

The stepfather, a 28-year-old Mexican national, later confessed to hitting the child with his fists because he was upset that Andres was crying, vomiting and had diarrhea, Tittle said. The suspect will likely go before a judge today. The mother...

“The woman said she was fine. Trooper Basteri said she was checking the area and that her car matched the description of a car that may have been involved 'in something up in Maine.'” What happened next has been blacked out of the affidavit, ...

"The only peace of mind that I look forward to is the day John Hummel stops breathing the air that he so violently deprived his murder victims from breathing," said Karen Sanders after the penalty decision, as quoted by UPI. Sanders lost her daughter...

23, and Thursday the Kern County coroner's office ruled the child died from multiple blunt force injuries. Wedel is being held on charges of murder, torture and abuse. When he was killed, James was living with his father's ex-girlfriend, Stormie Porter ...

(CBS/WBBM) CHICAGO - Chicago police say 20-year-old mother Toyrianna Smith killed her infant son when he would not stop crying and then took the dead infant shopping with her. Police say Smith took her her 3-year-old daughter and 3-month-old son to a ...

A 23-year-old Chicago man was charged with killing the 18-month-old son of his live-in girlfriend because he was angry, police said. Tinnell Smith, of the 4200 block of South Calumet Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood, was charged with first degree ...

In June, the same jury convicted Davis of first-degree murder and two counts each of torture and child abuse for the torture, abuse and killing of her niece, 15-year-old Jazzmin Davis, and the torture and abuse of Jazzmin's twin brother, who survived. ...

The defense is pointing the finger at Jim Spielock, the father of Johnson's son. But Dye says she's convinced Mead shot Lucy and then burned her house down. The motive? Dye claims Mead wanted Lucy to have an abortion. "I believe because she chose to ...

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Selber told the jury that the three defendants, including Daniel Kelly, the child's father, stood by and let it happen. "These three defendants failed to act," Selber said, referring also to former city social ...

La Mesa Police Department The Spring Valley father who was arrested in March and charged with solicitation of murder, was convicted Friday of the charge for offering a $3000 "dead or alive" bounty on his La Mesa daughter's boyfriend. ...

PARIS, Ill. — Wabash Valley teens are rallying on behalf of their friend, scrapping to raise bail money as he remains in custody, accused of stabbing his mother to death. A Facebook site and website popped up this week in response to the arrest of ...

OAKLAND -- An Alameda County jury has convicted an Antioch mother and daughter of murder in the 2009 death of a 91-year-old Dublin woman found stuffed into her own trash can. In a trial that included evidence of a litany of weapons, ...

East could be sentenced to a maximum of 20 to 40 years in prison if convicted of third-degree murder. The incident that resulted in the infant's death occurred last Friday. The infant's 18-year-old mother, Sarah Luby, dropped the child off with East at ...

She pleaded guilty last month to beating her son Kristofer to death, because she was angry he was crying. He had several broken bones, burns, and a brain injury. Posada has to serve at least 20 years before she's eligible for parole. ...

A woman arrested in a drug raid during which her father was fatally shot in May has been arrested again, accused of selling crack cocaine. Manique R. James, 35, of 1408 10th St. NE, was arrested at 4:10 pm Thursday at her home on ...

Alberta Comstock is being sued by her daughter, Faith Stocker, Rolland Comstock's adopted daughter. Stocker claims Alberta Comstock killed her father and should be punished. But in the nearly four years since Rolland Comstock was found dead on his ...

"Further, you committed this murder for the worst possible motives - revenge and spite. You killed your daughter to get back at her mother. You used your daughter, an innocent victim, as the instrument of your overarching desire to inflict pain on your ...

John Partipilo / File / The Tennessean A Davidson County jury convicted a Nashville mother of killing her 16-month-old daughter by giving her prescription drugs in 2008. Jurors deliberated for about three hours Thursday before convicting Jennifer ...

CARDIFF, Wales, July 2 (UPI) -- A woman who strangled her autistic son in a Welsh airport hotel was spared prison Friday and ordered to get psychiatric treatment. Judge Wyn Williams found Yvonne Freaney, 50, guilty of manslaughter, The Independent ...

"They all blamed it on this mystery man," said Houston police homicide investigator J. Robles, adding that the girls described the suspect as potentially being a boyfriend of their mother's. For the next two years, Allen's murder case remained unsolved ...

A Martinez woman suspected of killing a toddler she was baby-sitting in 2009 pleaded not guilty Friday afternoon to murder charges. Lawanda Concettes Tripp, 40, of Avery Landing, attended an arraignment hearing in the Columbia County ...

Prosecutors said Fathi had struck and bitten the child before and delivered a hard blow to his stomach that caused his death. Fathi has denied any involvement in Daniel's death, prosecutors said. A jury found him guilty of first-degree murder in 1985, ...

While he noted that the circumstances of such a case — including the murder of a young woman and a small child — can have an impact on investigators, Johnson piled praise on his detectives, lab personnel, and others who assisted in bring the case to ...

Haether K. Poertner, 26, pleaded guilty in April to second-degree murder in her son's death. Charles Poertner weighed only 28 pounds when he was found dead one morning in June 2010 after his mother called police to say he was stiff and not breathing on ...

Among the others are: — A post-conviction appeal from a Jackson County woman sentenced to life in prison in the death of an 8-week-old child. Amy Danielle Wilkerson pleaded guilty in 2007 to murder in the death of Tristan Chinn. ...

The girlfriend of a man accused of killing his own daughter has been sentenced for her role in the child's death. Monique Lynch received a 27-year sentence Thursday for the death of Genesis Sims. In 2010, 7-year old Genesis' body was found wrapped in ...

On Friday, the woman cried and pleaded for mercy before a judge handed down her sentence. Veronica Linares plead guilty to child abuse charges and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She was originally charged with second degree murder, ...

Debra Scribner is charged with first degree murder and conspiracy to commit first degree murder in the death of her 36-year-old son-in-law, Eric Wynn. Wynn was found dumped in a well. Investigators say Scribner conspired with her daughter and grandson ...

AP PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court has again upheld a man's death sentence in a notorious child murder case. The 4-1 ruling Friday affirms James Lynn Styers' sentence in the 1989 murder of 4-year-old Christopher Milke, who was the son of his ...

Entertainment News from AP By Ben Lawson - bio | email A grand jury in the Panhandle says there is enough evidence to send a man to trial for the death of his young son. On Wednesday, a Donley County Grand Jury indicted Robert Babcock for capital ...

For nearly an entire day after Alexander Adam Jackson allegedly killed his pregnant friend and dumped her body in a vacant southeast Houston lot, police said, the Friendswood man used her car to run errands. Jackson went to a meeting ...

A Sacramento jury today convicted a man of second-degree murder in the beating death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter three years ago. Thomas Jerome Martin, now 23, will be sentenced Aug. 19 by Superior Court Judge Michael A. Savage for the Feb. ...

BANGOR, Maine—A Massachusetts man who pleaded guilty to causing the death of his former girlfriend's 15-month-old son last year has been ordered to serve 25 years in prison. Twenty-eight-year-old Edgard Anziani of Lawrence, Mass., pleaded guilty to ...

Homicide, torture and first degree child abuse charges were filed against the mother's boyfriend James David Campbell, 29, of Pittsford, earlier this week. Her mother, Ashley Renee Ferguson, 26, of Bryan, Ohio was also charged with third degree child...

Richards was found guilty of murder and gross abuse of a corpse in the death of their father, Christopher Richards. / Matthew Berry/The Advocate NEWARK -- Christopher W. Richards was a man who never gave up on his son, despite Stephen Richards' ...

Smith initially told police that a black man had hijacked her car and abducted the children. Americans desperately searched for the boys for nine days until Smith confessed that she killed her sons, Michael, 3, and 14-month-old Alex. ...

Jeffrey Green said the couple got counseling and reconciled, determined to make things work without the tight alliance between mother and son. "It was too late," Jeffrey Green said. "They had a monster in the house." Around Tuxedo, Jesse Green had ...

A woman at the house late Friday night who identified herself as Routenberg's new girlfriend, Kristen, says he killed Chappie in self-defense. Kristen says she started dating Routenberg around the same time Chappie went missing about a month ago. ...

Lafayette Parish sheriff's deputies arrested Royer's mother, 28-year-old Stefani A. Morgan, and charged her with principal to first-degree murder in her son's death. Dylan Royer died June 12. Morgan, who had a warrant out for her arrest, ...

10:01am | More than two months after a mother seriously injured her infant child, the hospitalized baby died, police said. Six-month-old Nate Lopez-Garcia died on June 7 after having remained on life ...

Reaction also came from Melissa Jenkins sister. Jenkins is Robert Manwill's mother. In January, Jenkins admitted her role in her Robert's death. She pled guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree murder. "We lost a child. And then, our family, ...

"Please, don't abandon me; don't think that I'm a monster; please think of our child, who I am carrying under my heart," the accused double-murderer said in a letter published by the magazine along with an interview with her boyfriend. ...

Bennett's mother and daughters were among the family in court Thursday to applaud the news of the upgraded charge. Bennett's daughter, Leah Gumbs, of Franklin, said after two years of delay she was happy to see some movement in the case. ...

Upon arriving at the Rosses' Bee Ridge Drive home, the couple's adopted daughter told deputies her mother was missing after giving her father too many pills. Deputies found Larry Ross unresponsive in his bed, and took him to the Veterans Administration ...

Jomiah Washington was charged with first-degree murder, willful killing of an unborn child, mutilation of a dead body and felony firearm. Charles L. Smith, 64, of Fair Haven, the owner of a handgun that fired twice during a gun show at the Gibraltar ...

No one seems to know the whereabouts of the Scottsdale man — one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted. Authorities believe that in April 2001, Fisher killed his wife and two children as they slept, slashing their throats and shooting his wife in the head ...

By FOX 12 Webstaff - email A jury has found a Portland man guilty of killing his wife and dumping her body in a forest near Estacada. Brian Cole was first arrested in 2010 on charges he killed Heather Mallory. The jury deliberated for several hours ...